Introduction

Simple setup for express as backend and react as frontend

Project structure

• server resides under server directory
• react app reside under server directory inside client directory which created using create-react-app

Two servers for development

• Express server listens locally on port 5000
• React development server listens locally on port 3000
• use npm run dev from server directory to run express and react
• concurrently package is used to run both servers. install on server directory !
• This setup will work ONLY if you add "proxy": "http://localhost:5000" to package.json of the create-react-app project

Scripts of package.json inside server directory

Name	Description	Invoke from server directory
start	start express server using node	npm start
server	start express server using nodemon	npm run server
client	start react server	npm run client
dev	run server and client using the package concurrently	npm run dev